What are the little stars beside everyone's names mean... i only have one

Shalom,
The more posts you have the more "mazel points" you receive. The stars increase as you post more. Go to my space/profile and click on "mazal" to see the point system.

Some members also have a gold star next to their name. This means that they are a premium member.

thats just too tempting...now i am going to make lots of posts, just to get more stars

Hmm mazal stars, that reminds me of a little parable: man goes to China and is sick, he asks where he can find doctors so they show him a whole road. He is unsure which door to go to but he sees lanterns outside each door, some have many lanterns and some have one or none. So he figures it must be the more lanterns the more experience and so he picks the door with the most lanterns. After the doctor sees him and prescribes medicine, the man remarks, good system this, with the lanterns, at least I know how experienced each doctor is, the doctor shakes his head and says, no you dont understand, each time one of our patients die, we have to light another lantern outside as an indicator.